Attach PDFs to Word document?

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I am submitting an application for another position at my university. It requires several items, and they want all of them put together into a single document.

Problem is, some of them are PDFs (e.g., letters of reference, evaluations, etc.) and some of them are Word documents. What would be the best way to put them together? Can they be "linked" as is, or do they all have to be converted to one form or another?

Essentially only one or the other. Word Documents are pretty much standard for this, but I think that converting it all to PDF might be a good idea, as some of the documents that you have are already in this format.

possibly create a blank document, and then use explorer to find the files you need and then click on them and right click and copy them and paste them into the blank document. simply pasting the file name into the document will open it and format it for display.

If you have Office 2010, you can save Word documents as PDF files directly using the "save as" option. If not, there are multiple free online tools for converting Word files to PDF.

Simply Google "convert pdf online" and you'll get many hits.

This one works well:
http://convert.neevia.com/pdfconvert/

Similarly, there are online tools which can combine PDF files into a single document.

For instance, PDFMerge is free (up to 15 MB), requires no registration and is very easy to use.
http://www.pdfmerge.com/

If you have a large number of Word files, you can combine them in a zip file and use the following tool to batch convert them:
http://convertonlinefree.com/

Thanks, everyone. I checked up on this myself and decided that turning the pages of the PDFs into pictures, then inserting those, was the best course of action. (I still only have Office 2007).

Here is the website I used: http://pdf2jpg.net/

Trying to go from PDF to Word completely destroyed the formatting.

Anyway, it's done and submitted now.

You could use 7-zip, but you would be amazed at how many people can't deal with zip files.

At work I use PDFCreator to merge Word and other pdf files into one pdf file.

The program creates a virtual printer that you can print to. It normally wants to save what you want to print immediately to a pdf, but you click on this Collect button, and it holds the file in a buffer. So you go and open each file, print it to this virtual printer, then 'Collect'. Then you go into PDFCreator and merge the docs, then print as one big file.

Some company I deal with generates that reports in pdf, and when I try to do the above, it crashes, so I found out that I don't open the other company's pdf in Adobe Acrobat Reader, I open it in Foxit Reader.

Another wild thing I found was that the freeware Gimp can explode a pdf with security features into a bunch of images - but oh my it is a royal pain in the rear. But something to know if you ever get down that path.

Watch out, some versions of PDFCreator installed bloatware. Then they changed it to options you have to unclick at some point. I don't know about the most recent. It should be obtained at sourceforge.net - I love that site.

There are other programs that install virtual pdf printers, the most popular being the paid version of Adobe Acrobat.

It's very simple Microsoft Office provides you to save your documents as PDF. If you convert your all documents in pdf format it will be better to have standard format. For a single document you can merge all pdf files with online free pdf mergers.